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transenna

transenna noun: a screen.

Noun

transenna (plural transennas or transenne)

  1. A screen.
    • By this reversed direction of the high altars in the two churches each altar was, through the transenna, in view of the other.1881, George Gilbert Scott, An Essay on the History of English Church Architecture
    • Very pertinent relationships between these grisailles of the vegetal type and Islamic transennas have been established by Eva Frodl-Kraft, between that of Obazine with palmettes enchâssées, and a transenna from the Umayyad castle of Qasr-el Heir al Gharbi (about 727-750), today reconstructed at the...1982, Meredith P. Lillich, Studies in Cistercian art and architecture, page 134

Forms of transenna

pluraltransennas
pluraltransenne

Origin of transenna

From Italian transenna.

Questions about transenna

What does transenna mean?
Transenna means a screen.
What part of speech is transenna?
Transenna is a noun.
What is the plural of transenna?
The plural of transenna is transennas.

Words near transenna in the dictionary

  1. transendoscopic
  2. transendoscopically
  3. transendothelial
  4. transendothelially
  5. transendothelium
  6. transenna
  7. transennas
  8. transenne
  9. transenterocytic
  10. transentorhinal
  11. transenvelope

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